Vander Esch, Ulmer catch top honors

BOISE — A year-end poll of high school basketball coaches, published in the Idaho Statesman last Sunday, put 13 area athletes among Idaho’s best, naming all-1A senior hoopers Leighton Vander Esch of Salmon River and Kyndahl Ulmer of Prairie ‘player of the year’ in their respective divisions.

Vander Esch is headed to Boise State to be a preferred walkon with the football squad.